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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>,
	Mason <slash.tmp@free.fr>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: String literals in __init functions
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 09:23:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1427991803.23434.27.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1504021558350.27469@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 16:00 +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > I'd have thought that a function-wide
> > > 	__attribute__((__string_section__(foo))
> > > wouldn't be a ton of work to implement.
> > 
> > Maybe not.
> > 
> > Could some future version of gcc move string constants
> > in a function to a specific section marked in a manner
> > similar to what Andrew described above?
> 
> Putting string constants in a special section is an old project idea at 
> <http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/optimize.html#putting_constants_in_special_sections>.  

That's news to me.  Thanks for the link.

> I still think support for that would make sense.

That's good to know.

Do you know of a mechanism in place to prioritize
development for these optimization projects or is
this a placeholder for unscheduled or unresourced
TODOs?


  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-02 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-25 17:56 String literals in __init functions Mason
2015-03-25 18:01 ` Joe Perches
2015-03-26 12:40   ` Mason
2015-03-26 16:13     ` Joe Perches
2015-03-26 16:37       ` Mathias Krause
2015-03-26 17:53         ` Joe Perches
2015-03-26 20:49           ` Mathias Krause
2015-03-26 21:40             ` Andrew Morton
2015-03-26 21:58               ` Joe Perches
2015-03-26 22:15                 ` Andrew Morton
2015-03-27  7:16                   ` Mathias Krause
2015-04-02 16:00                 ` Joseph Myers
2015-04-02 16:23                   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2015-03-27  7:05               ` Mathias Krause
2015-03-27  7:32                 ` Joe Perches

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